Studies in the Book of Tobit: A Multidisciplinary Approach

207 Pages·2006·2.769 MB·English

by  Mark Bredin

LIBRARY OF SECOND TEMPLE STUDIES
55
formerly the Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series
Editor
Lester L. Grabbe
Editorial Board
Randall D. Chesnutt, Philip R. Davies, Jan Willem van Henten,
Judith M. Lieu, Steven Mason, James R. Mueller, Loren T.
Stuckenbruck, James C. VanderKam
Founding Editor
James H. Charlesworth
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STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF TOBIT
A Multidisciplinary Approach
edited by
MARK BREDIN
Copyright © Mark Bredin and contributors, 2006

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CONTENTS

List of Abbreviations ix
List of Contributors xi

INTRODUCTION
Mark Bredin 1

1. TOBIT IN SPAIN: SOME PRELIMINARY COMMENTS
ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE OLD LATIN WITNESSES
Simon Gathercole 5

2. SOME NEGLECTED TEXTS OF TOBIT: THE THIRD GREEK VERSION
Stuart Weeks 12

3. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JONAH IN VATICANUS (B) TOBIT 14. 4 AND 8
Mark Bredin 43

4. ‘SARAH IS THE HERO’: KIERKEGAARD’S READING
OF TOBIT IN FEAR AND TREMBLING
Hugh Pyper 59

5. TOBIT IN THE ART OF THE FLORENTINE RENAISSANCE
Trevor Hart 72

6. TOBIT AND THE JEWISH LITERARY TRADITION
Shalom Goldman 90

7. ‘BREAD ON THE GRAVE OF THE RIGHTEOUS’ (TOB. 4.17)
Nathan MacDonald 99

8. FAMILY LIFE AND ETHNICITY IN EARLY ISRAEL AND IN TOBIT
Pekka Pitkänen 104

9. THE ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL IN THE BOOK OF TOBIT
Margaret Barker 118

10. FAMILY, FERTILITY AND FOUL SMELL: TOBIT AND JUDITH
Hans J. Lundager Jensen 129
viii Studies in the Book of Tobit
11. TOBIT AS A PARABLE FOR THE EXILES OF NORTHERN ISRAEL
Richard Bauckham 140

12. FOOD AND DRINK IN TOBIT AND OTHER ‘DIASPORA NOVELLAS’
Nathan MacDonald 165

Index of References 179
Index of Names and Subjects 187
Index of Modern Authors 191
ABBREVIATIONS

A Alexandrinus
AB Anchor Bible
Asc. Isa. Ascension of Isaiah
AJT American Journal of Theology
Ant. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews
AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament
APOT The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament
) Sinaiticus
B Vaticanus
2 Bar. 2 (Syriac) Baruch [= Apocalypse of Baruch]
BAR Biblical Archaeological Report
BDB A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, F. Brown, S. R.
Driver, and C. A. Briggs.
BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
C Ephraemi Rescriptus
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CEJL Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature
CQ Classical Quarterly
D Bezae
DJD Discoveries in the Judean Desert
1 En. 1 (Ethiopic) Enoch
2 En. 2 (Slavonic) Enoch
FAT Forschungen zum Alten Testament
GI or GI Greek recension based on LXXABN and many minuscles
GII or GII Greek recension based on LXXs,, includes manuscripts 319 (Tob. 3.6-6.16)
and 910 (Tob. 2.2-5)
GIII or GIII A partially preserved (Tob. 6.8-13.8) Greek recension based on
manuscripts 44, 106, 107, and Syr-0
HSS Harvard Semitic Studies
j. Yerushalmi (Palestinian Talmud)
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JSNTSup Journal for the Study of the New Testament supplements
JSOT Journal for the Study of Old Testament
JSOTSup Journal for the Study of Old Testament supplements
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
JTS Journal of Theological Studies
Jub. Jubilees
Liv. Proph. Lives of the Prophets
LXX Septuagint
MT Massoretic Text
OBO Orbis biblicus et orientalis
Odes Odes of Solomon